Mere months after filmmaker Hao Wu, alongside a pair of China-based journalists-turned-filmmakers, started filming the remarkable pandemic documentary “76 Days,” the film was already headed out on the festival circuit. It was only fitting for such an immediate story, which unfolded during the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, chronicling a heartbreaking horror that would soon engulf the entire world.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging Covid-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis, ’76 Days’ tells indelible human stories at the center of this pandemic—from a woman begging in vain to bid a final farewell to her father, a grandfather with dementia searching for his way home, a couple anxious to meet their newborn, to a nurse determined to return personal items to families of the deceased. These intimate...
Per the film’s official synopsis: “On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging Covid-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis, ’76 Days’ tells indelible human stories at the center of this pandemic—from a woman begging in vain to bid a final farewell to her father, a grandfather with dementia searching for his way home, a couple anxious to meet their newborn, to a nurse determined to return personal items to families of the deceased. These intimate...
- 12/1/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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